WGC-Match Play to move to Austin in 2016

(SportsNetwork.com) - The International Federation of PGA Tours announced on Tuesday that the World Golf Championships-Match Play event will be moved to Austin, Texas, in 2016.

This year, the WGC-Cadillac Match Play will be contested at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco from April 29-May 3. Next year, the tournament will have a new title sponsor in Dell, which is based in the Greater Austin Area. The championship will be renamed the WGC-Dell Match Play.

"We couldn't be more pleased to welcome Dell as a sponsor of the World Golf Championships and, beginning in 2016, as the new title sponsor of the Match Play," PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem said. "The Match Play has a tremendous future with Dell as the incoming title sponsor, the event's move to Austin and the new round-robin format that is being introduced this year."

This is the first time a tour-sanctioned event will be played in Austin since 2003-09 on the Champions Tour. The decision on a host course has yet to be made, but an announcement is expected in the near future.

In 2016, the WGC-Dell Match Play is scheduled to be played the week of March 21-27. The new sponsorship will run through 2019.

Played last season in Arizona as the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, the tournament was won by Jason Day, who defeated Victor Dubuisson 1-up in 23 holes.